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Overview and Scrutiny Statutory Guidance
Meeting: 29/09/2020 - Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Item 210)
210 Overview and Scrutiny Statutory Guidance 
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To consider a report on the new statutory guidance on Overview and Scrutiny.
Members who sat on the Committee in the previous municipal year will recall that the Committee considered this report at its January 2020 meeting and agreed to consider suggestions for tangible actions at a future meeting.
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Minutes:
The Chief Finance Officer presented the report which had been considered by the Committee at its meeting in January 2020. At that meeting the Committee had noted the policies, practice, and approaches detailed within the statutory guidance. The report was before the Committee again to identify any changes to current practice, as a result of the guidance, that it wished to implement or recommend to Cabinet where matters lay outside the Committee’s remit
Members noted that the function and remit of scrutiny would be altered by a change to the committee system, which the Council had agreed to progress at its meeting on 30 July.
The Committee noted the clear message from the Guidance that Overview and Scrutiny should be allowed to flourish within Local Authorities and that Scrutiny members had enhanced powers to access relevant and timely information in order to carry out their duties effectively. Members agreed the Guidance intended this to be the default position, but that where the information must be withheld a written statement with reasons should be provided.
Resolved to note the report and that as a default position, information is provided to Scrutiny members on request and that a written statement with reasons is provided where information is withheld.
Meeting: 17/03/2020 - Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Item 9.)
9. Overview and Scrutiny Statutory Guidance PDF 116 KB
To consider a report on the new statutory guidance on Overview and Scrutiny.
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Meeting: 21/01/2020 - Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Item 14)
14 Overview and Scrutiny Statutory Guidance PDF 116 KB
To receive a report on the new statutory guidance on Overview and Scrutiny.
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Minutes:
The Committee received the report relating to new statutory guidance on Overview and Scrutiny to ensure that the function is carried out effectively and agreed that further consideration needed to be given to this
Resolved to carry forward this item to the next meeting where suggestions for tangible actions can be considered.